March 5, 201412 yr Midweek Charts: Singles Jess Glynne is heading for her second UK No 1 single of 2014 with Route 94’s My Love on which she features heading the midweeks. Glynne was previously part of Atlantic act Clean Bandit’s Rather Be, which was No 1 for four weeks, and she should return to the top this coming Sunday with the Rinse/Virgin EMI-issued My Love having already sold around 70,000 copies this week. According to the Official Charts Company, the track had up to the end of business on Tuesday sold more than twice as many copies as the RCA-handled Happy by Pharrell Williams slides 1-2 on Sales Flashes. Glynne has two tracks in the top three as it presently stands because Rather Be holds at No 3, while Capitol act Sam Smith’s own former No 1 Money On My Mind drops 2-4 and RCA’s A Great Big World featuring Christina Aguilera are static at 5 with Say Something. Katy Perry’s Virgin single Dark Horse with Juicy J is now in decline, dropping 4-6, as Lily Allen looks to score her third Top 10 single within a couple of months and sixth in all. Following the chart-topping Somewhere Only We Know and Hard Out Here, which reached No 9 last November, Air Balloons registers as a new entry at No 7 in the week so far. After debuting at No 6 last weekend, Virgin’s Tiesto is down to 8 in the week so far with Red Lights as Columbia’s John Legend holds at 9 with All Of Me and Sign Of The Times/Epic’s Foxes single Let Go For Tonight is down 7-10. Coldplay are presently a couple of hundred sales short of debuting in the Top 10 with Magic, the lead single off their forthcoming sixth Parlophone album Ghost Stories. It is currently at No 11 in the midweeks. Polydor’s Ellie Goulding performed Goodness Gracious on Graham Norton’s BBC One chat show last Friday, but it is her previous single How Long Will I Love You that is performing better this week. While Goodnight Gracious slips 16-19, How Long Will I Love You moves back up 28-14 with sales rising 67% after being used in ITV’s Dancing On Ice. Meanwhile, Starship’s Eighties classic We Built This City is moving ever closer to a Top 20 comeback as the RCA track’s use in a 3 TV commercial further lifts it 26-21 in the latest midweeks. Meanwhile, Nick Mulvey, a founding member of the Mercury-nominated Portico Quartet, is new at 25 with the Fiction/Polydor-issued Cucurucu. Midweek Charts: Albums Pharrell Williams’ new album is outselling its next seven rivals combined on its way to the UK No 1 spot this weekend. The RCA-handled G I R L had clocked up around 36,000 sales up to the end of business on Tuesday, according to the Official Charts Company, nearly six times as many copies as Polydor act Ellie Goulding’s Halcyon at No 2 in the midweeks. G I R L follows Williams last week achieving his one-millionth UK sale for the single Happy, the third time in less than a year a track on which he figured reached seven figures. The first was Daft Punk’s Get Lucky on which he featured, while Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, where he also guested alongside TI, followed suit. The album is only the American’s second solo effort with the first, In My Mind, having reached No 7 in 2006. There are three other brand new albums in the Top 10 at this stage of the week made up of efforts by Rick Ross, Mike Oldfield and A Great Big World. Def Jam/Virgin EMI’s Ross is represented by Mastermind at No 6, his sixth album and the follow-up to God Forgives, I Don’t, which reached No 8 in 2012. Mike Oldfield is new at 7 with the Mercury/Virgin-handled Man On The Rocks as he looks to extend his run of Top 10 albums to more than 40 years, a pattern that began in 1973 with Tubular Bells. He could also be on course for his first back-to-back Top 10 studio albums since 1983 as his last effort Music Of The Spheres peaked at No 9 in 2008. A Great Big World will be looking to match the Top 10 achievement of their single Say Something featuring Christina Aguilera with the RCA albums Is There Anybody Out There presently showing up as a new entry at 10 in the midweek artist albums chart. Positions 2 to 4 on the countdown are all made up of Brit Awards performers in varying degrees of decline. Sales of Ellie Goulding’s Halcyon are down just 2.4% on the week to move it up 3-2, a status no doubt helped by her performing Goodness Gracious on Graham Norton’s BBC One chat show last Friday. Virgin’s Bastille drop 1-3 with sales of Bad Blood down 30%, Arctic Monkeys’ fifth Domino effort AM drops 2-4 as sales decline 26% and Beyonce’s self-title RCA album holds at 5 as sales slip 12%. Avicii’s Positiva/PRMD debut True is heading back into the Top 10 as its weekly sales rise 58% in the week so far to lift it 12-8, while Metal & Dust/Ministry of Sound’s London Grammar lose a place to sit at No 9 with If You Wait. Outside the Top 10 sales of Polydor act Haim’s Days Are Gone more than double as it lifts 22-12, while brand new entries include Drive By Truckers at No 21 on the ATO label with English Oceans and We Are Scientists on indie 100 Percent Records new at 22 with TV En Francais. There are also arrivals from Jazz Life’s Blood Red Shoes and Polydor’s Rufus Wainwright, the latter with a first best of and following him performing on Jonathan Ross’s ITV show last Saturday. - Source: MW. By, Paul Williams =================================================== Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 Route 94 feat. Jess Glynne - My Love (69.6k) * 2 Pharrell - Happy (32.8k) 3 Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - Rather Be (21.6k) 4 Sam Smith - Money On My Mind (19.9k - 37 ahead of #5) 5 A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera - Say Something (19.9k) 6-10 7 Lily Allen - Air Balloon * 11-20 11 Coldplay - Magic * 14 Ellie Goulding - How Long Will I Love You 21-30 21 Starship - We Built This City 22 Idina Menzel - Let It Go 25 Nick Mulvey - Cucurucu * 31-40 39 Passenger - Let Her Go ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatesingles/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/r...gles-race-2797/ =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Pharrell - G I R L (36.1k) * 2 Ellie Goulding - Halcyon (6.2k) 3 Bastille - Bad Blood (5.1k) 4 Arctic Monkeys - AM (4.9k) 5 Beyoncé - BEYONCÉ (4.7k) 6-10 6 Rick Ross - Mastermind * 7 Mike Oldfield - Man On The Rocks * 8 Avicii - True 10 A Great Big World - Is There Anybody Out There? * 11-20 12 HAIM - Days Are Gone 17 Imagine Dragons - Night Visions 21-30 21 Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans * 22 We Are Scientists - TV En Français * 27 Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow 29 Kodaline - In A Perfect World 30 Blood Red Shoes - Blood Red Shoes * 31-40 31 Rufus Wainwright - Vibrate - The Best Of * 35 Real Estate - Atlas * 37 Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatealbums/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/p...with-girl-2796/
March 5, 201412 yr Fantastic start for Route 94! :cheer: 'My Love' should easily clear 120k this week. :heart: Glad to see Pharrell looking to post the first decent No1 album sales of 2014. :) <cough>The Boss<cough>
March 5, 201412 yr Hate the way the chart update insists on playing climbers that have been way overplayed instead of playing Iva Mendez or Starship! Ive heard Passenger & HLWILY a thousand times before!! Edited March 5, 201412 yr by steve201
March 5, 201412 yr I hope this was sarcasm - Pharrell is outselling Ellie 5.6 to 1 :lol: Definitely sarcasm :lol:
March 5, 201412 yr So no magic top 10 officially this week.. It's 11, I thought it will be 10 today. and now starts to freefall of course with no promo, radio and video... It will end up 11. Shame.
March 5, 201412 yr So no magic top 10 officially this week.. It's 11, I thought it will be 10 today. and now starts to freefall of course with no promo, radio and video... It will end up 11. Shame. Theyre still no 6 by me & theyre ad for the album preorder is still advertised so hopefully wont drop too much. Plus radio 1 could playlist it today?!
March 5, 201412 yr Hate the way the chart update insists on playing climbers that have been way overplayed instead of playing Iva Mendez or Starship! Ive heard Passenger & HLWILY a thousand times before!! Who?
March 5, 201412 yr Don't know if Mikey just copied it down wrong earlier or if the actual information was different earlier (more likely the former :P) but Rick Ross' album is actually #6 ahead of Mike Oldfield today. Absolutely no clue how Rick Ross has done so well on the album chart recently, he's topped the US album chart with all but one of his albums but his first 3 albums missed the top 200 entirely here and the fourth missed the top 100 as well, yet he now looks set to get a second top 10 album in a row since then! Without having anything even close to a hit single to his name, I am very confused as to where the massive surge in support since 2012 has come from. Looks like Route 94 & Jess Glynne are going to romp past the six figure mark, hooray for another high selling #1 and hopefully it should hang around for a while as well. It's kind of strange to think that 'Rather Be' would probably never have happened, at least in its current form, without 'My Love' (Clean Bandit said on Radio 1 that they discovered Jess Glynne through 'My Love') and yet 'My Love' would probably have been nowhere near as big as it has been without 'Rather Be'. And my prediction of at least 80k for Pharrell's album looks like it might have been slightly too high but it should easily pass 70k based on its sales so far (sold another 11k yesterday). Will have the highest weekly sales for an album of the year by far anyway, I imagine it'll hold onto that until Paolo Nutini's album comes out, unless Adele decides to do a Beyoncé (it has been rumoured that her next album is coming 'sooner than we think').
March 5, 201412 yr Pharrell heading for very respectable album sales. I hope Gary Barlow can sneak back into the top 30 officially on Sunday.
March 6, 201412 yr So MAYBE Magic can do it... it's still 5 and gained a little bit after I wrote what I wrote... and has a BIG lead over 8-10... I think in Friday is should be number 8-9 and maybe they still get it :) Edited March 6, 201412 yr by omrimayo
March 6, 201412 yr I think Paloma will end up around number 33 on Sunday, it was great it went top 10 but the decrease this week is disappointing.
March 6, 201412 yr I am so happy. I did not expect My Love to do so well. I thought it was one of those cool dance song that Clubland TV plays but never breaks through to the mainstream. I'm so pleased. It is a proper stunning little thing. Its great to see many new dance acts, getting their debut #1's, last year we had Storm Queen, Martin Garrix, etc, this year the theme seem to be continuing with Route 94, and most likely DVBBS & Borgeous next week, I bet most of them will struggle to have a follow up single, looking at the release schedule there could be other new dance acts to join the elite. If only Indie music could change the tide a bit. Does it matter? Dance music is rarely about that. Guetta and Harris are exceptions to the rules. Look at the greatest dance songs, you'll rarely find a 'star' Edited March 6, 201412 yr by Paramore
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